Review: Add support for additional ACPI table dump for acpidump(8)

[Moore, Robert]

And there's a bunch of new tables coming for ACPI 5.0



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> From: owner-freebsd-acpi at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
> acpi at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Andriy Gapon
> Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2011 12:32 AM
> To: acpi at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Review: Add support for additional ACPI table dump for
> acpidump(8)
> 
> on 22/03/2011 06:43 Takanori Watanabe said the following:
> > This patch adds support capability to dump Alert Standard
> Format(ASF!)
> > and Simple Boot format(BOOT) table to acpidump(8).
> 
> Not picking on this specific proposal, but my opinion that in general
> we would
> be better off if we could add acpixtract-compatible output format to
> acpidump.
> We already import acpixtract sources, it is maintained by ACPICA guys
> and
> supports a lot of useful formats.
> 
> I even had a half-baked patch for that.
> http://people.freebsd.org/~avg/acpi-dump-xtract.diff
> 
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> Andriy Gapon
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